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Obama proposes climate fundUS President Barack Obamawill propose a $US1 billion($A1.1 billion) fund to limitthe impact of climate change,as he inspects California’sdrought-parched farmland.

He will propose the invest-ment in his 2015 budget thatwill be released next month— though it is unclearwhether the fund has much

prospect of advancing pastRepublicans on Capitol Hill.

‘‘We’ve always haddroughts, but the worst onesare getting longer and drier,’’said White House spokes-man Jay Carney.

The new Climate Resili-ence Fund is intended to fin-ance research into impacts ofclimate change.

UN denounces N Korea ‘crimes’

Kim Jong-un

A UN panel, led by retiredAustralian judge MichaelKirby, says crimes againsthumanity have been commit-ted in North Korea and it willcall for an internationalcriminal investigation.

Its report, to be released to-morrow, is the most authori-tative account yet of rights vi-olations by North Koreanauthorities and is bound to in-furiate the country’s unpre-

dictable leader,Kim Jong-un.

The commiss-ion, which con-ducted a year-long investi-gation, has found

evidence of an array of cri-mes, including extermi-nation, crimes against hu-manity against starvingpopulations and a widespreadcampaign of abductions of

individuals in South Koreaand Japan.

Last October, Kirby told theGeneral Assembly that whenthe commission delivers itsfinal report, ‘‘the internat-ional community will be ob-liged to face its responsibilit-ies and decide what concreteaction it will take’’. But NorthKorea’s ally, China, is likelyto block any referral to the In-ternational Criminal Court.

Impaled boy’s lucky escapeA TEN-year-old Brazilianboy has survived after fall-ing from a tree and landingon a 60cm long iron bar thatentered his left armpit andexited near his right ear.

Doctors told Globo TVthat it’s a miracle thatWeverton Silva didn’t die.

The short reinforcing barthat pierced him during last

week’s accident in Rio deJaneiro state barely missedan artery and his heart.

The boy was on a branchof a guava tree when itbroke and he fell on a wallthe bar was jutting from.

Dr Rodrigo Chicralla saidit took five hours to removethe bar and doctors sent thechild home on Friday.

A worker hauls in a rope while perched on the shoulder of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio Picture: GETTY IMAGES

Mountain handymen showhead for almighty heights

A TEAM of specialists hasbegun to restore the moun-taintop statue of Christ theRedeemer in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil’s most iconic monu-ment, which was damagedlast month by lightning.

Restoration of the giantstatue crowning Corcovadomountain began after Cath-olic Archbishop Orani Tem-pesta blessed the workers.

The Rio Archdiocese, ow-ner of the statue, entrustedthe work to a group of abseil-ing mountain-climbers toavoid the use of scaffolds, soas not to suspend visits whilerepairs were under way.

The work is expected totake four months and willfocus on the hands and head.

Plans also include expand-ing the area covered by light-

ning rods. The repairs are ex-pected to cost about 2 millionreais (A$930,000).

Christ the Redeemer, elect-ed as one of the seven won-ders of the world in a 2007 on-line poll, was struck bylightning last January thatdamaged the third finger ofthe right hand. The statue,created in 1931, is visited by700,000 tourists every year.

No relief for drenched UKTWO people have died andBritain’s coastal communi-ties have been battered byhigh winds and huge wavesas widespread floodingcontinues to bring miseryto thousands.

A cruise ship passengerdied after 130km/h windswhipped up freak waves inthe English Channel and awoman was killed when part

of a building collapsed on to acar in central London.

More than 30 people had tobe rescued by emergencyservices and the army from aseafront restaurant inMilford on Sea, Hampshire,after wind-blown shingleshattered windows and thesea flooded it.

There is major disruptionacross Britain’s road and rail

networks, with hundreds oftrees uprooted across roadsand rail tracks. Many trainservices have been cancelled.

The Environment Agencyand emergency services con-tinue to battle with the latestinstalment of the worst win-ter storms in living memory.

Some 22 severe flood warn-ings were yesterday in place,issued for coastal communi-

ties from Cornwall to Hamp-shire, Gloucester and theThames Valley, where riversremain at their highest levelsfor decades.

Communities across thecountry have been usingsandbags and makeshiftbarriers to protect theirhomes and businesses fromthe floodwaters.

The Duke of Cambridge and

his brother Prince Harry join-ed in the emergency relief asthey helped fill sandbags inDatchet, Berkshire.

In central London, a wom-an died and three other peo-ple were injured when thefascia of a building collapsedon to a car opposite Holbornunderground station.

A man and a woman werefreed from the car but the wo-

man died at the scene, Lon-don Ambulance Service said.

An 85-year-old mandied after the 22,000-tonneMarco Polo cruise ship washit by a freak wave in theEnglish Channel.

Water crashed through awindow, injuring a number ofpeople. The man was airliftedoff the vessel along with a wo-man in her 70s, but later died.

SEARCHCONTINUESINDONESIAN rescuers yes-terday recovered a bodybelieved to be of a Japan-ese diver and searched forsix others missing off theresort island of Bali.The group, including twoinstructors, left on Fridaymorning on a boat they hi-red for a dive around man-groves in Crystal Bay whenstrong winds and heavyrains hit the area, said Ma-jor Nyoman Suarsika, chiefof Nusa Penida police.

MINE TRAGEDYA WALL of rain-soddenearth has collapsed into anillegal open-air gold miningpit in southwestern Colom-bia, trapping people be-neath, authorities say.Red Cross spokesmanMarinson Buitrago put thenumber of missing at 15while the state security di-rector reported five miss-ing. Mr Buitrago said 31people were hurt in the col-lapse.

KILLER STORMTWO people have died as afresh snow storm hit Japan,disrupting rail and roadtravel and grounding morethan 100 flights.The Kyodo news agencyreported two people werekilled on Friday in snow-related accidents in thecentral Shiga and south-western Oiga prefectures.

AIRPORTSREOPENTHREE airports in Indon-esia reopened yesterday,while four others remainedclosed, officials said, aftera volcanic eruption killedthree people and forcedmass evacuations.Java’s Mount Kelud beganspewing red-hot ash androcks high into the sky lateon Thursday night.

SECURITYBREACHTHREE people at the USNational Security Agencyhave now been implicatedin Edward Snowden’s ef-forts to copy classified ma-terial, including a civilianemployee who resigned inJanuary, according to anNSAmemo to Congress.The other two werean active-duty memberof the military and acivilian contractor.